8 Plots for Explaining Linear Regression to a Layman

Explain regression to a non-technical audience with residual, weight, effect and SHAP plots

Conor O'Sullivan
Towards Data Science
13 min readApr 16, 2024

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“And don’t use any math” was my manager’s instruction.

How else am I supposed to explain how regression works!?

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